Dude .... no need to convert WMA to MP3. The CF card will play both. ... even both formats on the came card.

Like logik05se, I use the jukebox for purchased CDs (or CD images) and the CF card for mixed music / downloads.

Wow! Lot's of replies. Let me see...

To those who suggested I do a Windows file copy (CTRL-A, CTRL-C, CTRL-V) from the file explorer: Please refer to this line on page 4-36 of the G35 manual:

Not wanting to turn my CompactFlash card into an iPod Shuffle, I realized that I would have to tightly control the order in which the songs were being written to the card. It was immediately obvious to me that whatever Win32 API method Windows was using to do this in Explorer et al was not doing it alphabetically, so all my 01-Song1.mp3, 02-Song2.mp3, etc orderings were to no avail. I'm not absolutely sure about this, but I think the API uses a kind of preorder or inorder directory traversal and a FILO policy on the files per directory.

So I tried XCopy, since that does a recursive alphabetic copy, but there's something about it that does something weird, either while writing file blocks or FAT32 entries to the card, that just flips the G35 out and makes it think there's nothing on the card.

So I went with a batch file partially generated by a recursive alphabetic "dir" command with output redirected to a text (.bat) file. I then used a powerful text editor to set up a macro or two to convert that listing into several hundred copy commands (one for each mp3). That worked, and Infiniti is dead right - it preserves file ordering exactly if you write the files one by one in the order you wish them to appear.

To those who wondered if I'm a Unix user turned Windows user: Nah, my home LAN is about 50:50 comprised of XP on Intel hardware and Linux on Intel & PPC hardware. I'm at home in many flavors of Unix and in BSD as well. I keep trying to right-click with Macs though, but I respect their new OS architecture. I spend most of my time on XP at home and Linux at work.

if you name your folders and files properly (precede with a number) you can control the order in which files are played. no need for fancy controlled copying.

oops. just read your post above.

the CF setup ignores the filenames and uses a different feature to establish play order? that's weeeeeird.

I would much rather use a *nix variant

The order in which cp works is well known and I don't need no "powerful editor" to do my stuff - vi works rather nice

I should have further explained... My Napster files are encrypted/protected until I convert them to MP3...

Or you can use TuneBite to remove the DRM protection from the wmv files.

Thats what I was referring to SPEEED... my napster files are WMA files which the car WOULD play were they not encrpyted, so I use Tunebite (thanks to you! ) to convert them to regular ol' unprotected MP3s and VOILA!!!

Oh RIGHT! It was YOU! hOOKiESeAn!

yep! I am a big fan of that program!

and its hOkie... haha

you know what a Hokie is??

wait.... you right click?

what happend to ctrl+c and ctrl+v

Pretty sure what you're running into is caused by too many subdirectories.

I read somewhere that all your folders have to be off the root, and you can't get any deeper than that.

What I do is:

CF:\Artist-Album

Works just fine for me.

There is absolutely *0* reason why XCOPY wouldn't work.

And besides, real men use cp.

cp -R * /mnt/flash

I know I know, I caught my error after the fact and was too lazy to go in there and do Ctrl + Z on my post...

Sorry bro, I was typing too fast. Why don't you enlighten me?